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The Shawshank Redemption Ending Explained: Get Busy Living, Or Get Busy Dying Any wildly popular movie eventually attracts people who want to take it down a peg or two, and it has become fashionable in recent years to argue that “The Shawshank Redemption” is overrated. Its detractors often claim it is too slow, sentimental, cliched, and far-fetched, with a glaring plot hole that is ridiculously obvious once you know it’s there....

This Kurt Russell Art Show Looks A-Number One, Is All In The Reflexes One of the greatest pleasures of my career so far arrived last year,when I was able to interview the greatKurt Russellfollowing the premiere of the fantastic horror westernBone Tomahawk. Russell is one of the greats, a massive screen presence who’s willing to take chances on strange movies, a “man’s man” who isn’t afraid to play weak or buffoonish, an actor who can embody cowboys and criminals and psychopaths and moody helicopter pilots stranded in the ass-end of Antarctica....

This Week In Trailers: Happily Never After, Lovely Molly, How To Grow A Band, StreetDance 2: 3D, Babycall Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Postal Service - Everything Will Change, Evolution Of A Criminal, Heartbeat, Point And Shoot, Abuse Of Weakness Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Tim Robbins And Victor Garber Offer Opposing Portrayals Of Real People In ‘Dark Waters’ In any other whistleblower drama,Tim Robbins' Tom Terp would be a villain. The supervising partner toMark Ruffalo’s corporate environmental defense attorney Rob Bilott in Todd Haynes legal dramaDark Waters(opening wide this weekend), Terp is initially skeptical about Bilott’s budding crusade against the big chemical corporation DuPont. Understandably so: One of the biggest clients for the firm where they both work, Taft Law, is DuPont....

Update: Disney Takes Rights To Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ We’ve been following theprogressofTron LegacydirectorJoseph Kosnski’s attempt to get his graphic novelOblivionset up with a studio development deal. Kosinski came up with the story a few years ago, and set it into graphic novel format before trying to get a studio to bite. Disney was said to be the frontrunner in the dealmaking, and now the Mouse has taken the rights toOblivion. Where will the project fit into Kosinski’s increasingly crowded slate with the studio?...

Vin Diesel Teases A Possible Sequel To ‘The Iron Giant’ Just last week brought the trailer forThe Iron Giant: Signature Edition, a new Blu-Ray release of the 1999 animated film fromThe IncrediblesdirectorBrad Bird, which willalso be hitting theaters for a couple daysthis fall. And if one of the film’s stars is to be believed, this re-release of the movie might be a way of testing the waters for a forthcoming sequel....

‘Ad Astra’ Trailer: Brad Pitt Heads To Space To Find Tommy Lee Jones James Gray,one of the best directors working right now that you’ve probably have never heard of, is back withAd Astra. The sci-fi epic findsBrad Pitttraveling into space to find his missing father, played byTommy Lee Jones. Gray has been working onAd Astrasince 2017, spending a large amount of time making sure the special effects were just right. Now, we finally have our first look at the film....

‘American Gods’ Featurette: It’s Time To Go A Little Mad Starz is about ready to serve up a far stranger war story than we’re accustomed to seeing. The old gods and the new gods will soon duke it out inBryan Fuller(Hannibal)andMichael Green’s (Heroes) adaptation ofNeil Gaiman’s fantasy novel,American Gods. Before Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) sets out on his journey with Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), you can get acquainted (or reacquainted) with his new friends and enemies in anAmerican Godsfeaturette below....

‘Asia’ Review: ‘Unorthodox’ Star Shira Haas Shines In Devastating Mother-Daughter Drama [Tribeca] All the signs of a weepy incurable disease movie show themselves early inAsia, Israeli filmmakerRuthy Pribar’s tender debut film. But slowly, subtly,Asiasets itself apart from the rest of its sentimental cohorts and shows itself to be a moving and poignant mother-daughter drama of a different kind. Unorthodoxbreakout starShira Haasis the rebellious teenage daughter of Asia (Alena Yiv), a vivacious young mom who had her daughter Vika when she was a little more than a teenager herself....

‘Frozen 2’ Plot Revealed: Here’s What Anna And Elsa Are Searching For Elsa tries to escape an island by icing her way over crashing waves. Anna takes a dramatic leap of faith across a dark chasm. Kristoff and Sven lead a large herd of reindeer toward an unknown destination. What the heck is happening inthe teaserfor Walt Disney Animation’sFrozen 2? Despite this being the sequel to the highest-grossing animated movie in history, the actual plot for this follow-up has largely been kept under wraps....

‘It: Chapter Two’ Early Buzz: An Overlong Sequel That Eventually Finds Its Groove The Losers' Club is heading back to Derry, Maine to face off against Pennywise the Clown (aka, IT) once again – this time, as adults. But canJames McAvoy,Jessica Chastain,Bill Hader,Isaiah Mustafa,Jay Ryan,James Ransone, andAndy Beanrecapture the lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry of the younger cast from 2017’s mega-successfulIt? (Is such a thing even possible?) Is this sequel scarier than the original?...

‘Leave The World Behind’: Julia Roberts And Denzel Washington To Star In Sam Esmail’s Netflix Film Julia RobertsandDenzel Washington, two of the biggest Hollywood stars of the past four decades, are about to work together again for the first time in nearly thirty years. Roberts and Washington are set to star inLeave the World Behind, a new Netflix movie that will be written and directed byMr. Robot’sSam Esmail. Get the details below....